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Challenge #3: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why?

I would love to get coffee with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. They seem like a hoot. I have adored Kristen since Veronica Mars and I watched every episode of ‘The Good Place’ and I am sad she is not on my TV every week anymore. The two of them are #relationshipgoals and I think it would just be fun to hang out and chat with her about whatever. She has a beautiful way of looking at the world.

Next up, I would to meet up with Rian Johnson in a bar for drinks, because I’d want to loosen his tongue a bit and then get him to explain his vision for the final movie in the sequel trilogy. I’m sure I would have to sign a NDA afterwards, but it would be worth it to just know. I would even pay for the drinks. Something tells me Johnson would just be a fun person to talk to.

Last but not least, I would want to host a HUGE dinner for the Oxtra and Dicebreaker teams. I love watching them interact on streams and even if I was running around filling drinks and serving food and didn’t get to talk, I would love to just listen to them all laughing and talking. Maybe we could even find time for a game together! They are all so down to Earth, I just feel like listening to their opinions on life, the universe and everything would make for a lovely evening.

Oddly enough, I’m struggling to think of an fictional characters I want to hang out with right now. The only one that comes to mind is I would want to get a burger of the day at Bob’s Burgers. But I would sit in a booth and just observe the shenanigans LOL.

In an effort to use this blog more, I'm going to participate in the annual 'Snowflake Challenge' so I post on a regular basis. Hopefully, eventually, I will just make some time for blogging and enjoy the process of getting some of the thoughts constantly rolling around in my head committed to the digital page.

Enter, the Snowflake Challenge (details here)

Challenge #1 In your own space, introduce yourself!



I'm orangerful aka Sam. Librarian by day, nerd 24/7.

If I listed every fandom/obsession I have, we would be here all day, so let's just hit the big ones that will probably give you a pretty well rounded view of who I am:

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Happy New Year! It's 2021 - let's do better this year!

I haven't done a real post in awhile! I've been trying to get back into the work groove and it has not been easy. But everything will change on Monday when we open the doors to the patrons. Ugh.

ANYWAY - here is June in 30 seconds :)

Actually did it this time!

So much YouTube...

You know, some people might not like their Mom to follow them on Twitter but it comes in handy when you have a crap memory and there is some kind of cute meme going around. Today the question on Twitter was "What was the first movie you cried at?" so I retweeted @ my Mom and got this this answer:

If you mean we had to take you out of the theatre, it was Excalibur. You cried when all the action stopped. If you mean overcome by emotion, it would have to be E.T. Grandma took you when you were 2.

— BravoZulu13 (@BravoZulu13) January 11, 2020

you're welcome.

Inspired by meathiel and doomdays, here is my One Second Every Day for the month of December.



Kinda sorta already dropped the ball on January LOL so I will try again in February!

My goodness this is a LONG list of questions LOL. But we are all having fun, right? I feel like we've had some great conversations with this meme. Booknerds are awesome.

21. Have you ever read a book series because you were pressured? requested by ragnarok_08
A whole series? I don't think so. I've had books suggested to me and tried them, but I can't think of any that I read because I felt pressured to. (the thing is I know I am guilty of pressuring people into reading books LOL)

23. Who is your favourite author of all time? requested by chocolate_frapp
SO HARD TO PICK ONE! My default answer has been Douglas Adams and Michael Crichton for a long time, but I feel like I should probably mention Jeff Lemire now as I have read almost everything he has done (there are a couple brand new books I haven't picked up yet). OH! And A.S. King. Yeah, she is on the list now for sure. Even if her last few books were just so damn surreal I could barely understand them.

24. How many bookshelves do you own? requested by rogueslayer452
Oddly enough, not very many and most are filled with action figures. There's the star wars shelves, the whedon shelves, the movie shelves, and then the shelf in the guest room that actually does have books on it. We have a bookshelf in our bedroom too though that is mostly Tim's books. I'm a librarian, so I rarely buy books until I feel the need to collect them for fandom reasons. So what was that? 4? 5? Yeah, not an impressive number.

26. What is your favourite non-fiction book? requested by brunettepet
ANOTHER HARD ONE! OMG! To pick just one!!! I will say that Stephen King's On Writing is a book I refer back to a lot. Part autobiography and part how-to, King is honest and to the point. I listened to the audio too and he reads it so it was like driving around with him in my passenger seat, listening to him ramble about writing.

BUT right now I would pick The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix, a beautifully illustrated book about Deitrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to assassinate Hitler.

27. What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book? requested by teragramm
AAAAAAAAAH ANOTHER DIFFICULT ONE! I read a lot of middle grade fiction for fun so I have SO MANY to point to. I already mentioned 'Gregor', I LOVE the 'Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales' series. I was really impressed by Adam Gidwitz's 'The Inquisitor's Tale'. That book did NOT talk down to kids and covered some heavy topics but somehow managed to stay engaging and fun. And apparently if I had listened to the audio book, they got some medieval band to sing one of the songs that plays at the tavern.

32. What was the most expensive book you bought? requested by graveexcitement
This is tricky because the most expensive book I *own* I got as a present. This would be a book of all the songs The Beatles ever performed, transcribed into sheet music, every single part. I think it might have retailed for at least $100 when it came out and when I got it. But my parents got it for me as birthday present.

So personally...hm...probably one of my Buffy academia books because those are small presses and not cheap.

33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/TV series? requested by rogueslayer452
SO MANY! Right now, I'm slowly reading THE EXPANSE book series. I actually don't want to catch up to the show because I'm enjoying watching it all unfold. I'm really impressed by how close the show and the books follow each other. Makes sense because I know the authors are heavily involved.

The worst was JAWS. That book is AWFUL! DO NOT READ! Throw it into the ocean and watch the movie. BLAH!

35. What three books are you most looking forward to reading this year? requested by meathiel
THE TOLL - book 3 in The Arc of the Scythe series by Neal Shusterman. NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!
Major Impossible - Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9 by Nathan Hale DECEMBER!!!!
Network Effect - Murderbot Diaries #5 - this one isn't out until 2020.

36. What is a book you love that has a terrible trope? (Love triangle, etc) requested by ragnarok_08
Probably most YA books LOL. I LOVE the Unwind series, but there is definitely some love triangle/teen angst tropes in there. Same with Scythe. But not enough to distract from the action.

37. Have you read a book in a different language? What was it? requested by doomdays
Estamos en un libro/We are in a book - (Elefante y Gordita/Elephant and Piggie) by Mo Willems. It's an easy reader book so about my level. I did a Spanish/English storytime at the library.

40. What is the weirdest book you have read? requested by qwentoozla
(I have six pages of books tagged as "weird" on my GoodReads)
The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer was so very strange, I'm not sure I would have made it through if I hadn't seen the movie and just wanted to know more.
Demon by Jason Shiga is weird and WRONG.
Landscape with Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson was so strange I couldn't figure out how to booktalk it.
Anything by A.S. King is weird in that magical realism kind of way. Strange things happen but they could just be tricks of the mind or metaphors or something. I don't even know sometimes.

43. What book did you buy because of its cover? requested by teragramm and rogueslayer452
I don't buy books BUT I do check out a LOT of books because they have cool covers. Most recently, I picked up 'Wilder Girls' off the return cart because look at this:

It's sitting on my desk at work now. Someday I might even read it!

I can barely read the books I check out from the library, buying books would be futile because they have no due date so why would I ever actually read them?

45. Do you own a poetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it? requested by meathiel
My copy of Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends" is still at my parents' house. The two poems I remember from it as favorites is the one about if they make you wash the dishes, drop some of the floor so no one asks you to wash the dishes anymore. And another one about Captain Hook remembering to not pick his nose. HIGH ART PEOPLE!

As an aside, I really enjoy YA books written in verse. Solo by Alexander Kwame is REALLY GOOD.

47. Do you own any historical fiction? requested by author_by_night
I'm sure I do. I must! ...wait, do I? I'm trying to think of some historical fiction I have read recently but it was all from the library.

50. What book got you into reading? requested by doomdays
I'm going to say Jurassic Park is the one that brought me back to reading. I read as a kid but then all the damn books with dead dogs and dead children turned me off of reading for fun **glares at Bridge to Terabithia** But I was really excited about the Jurassic Park movie and my Mom made a comment that was sort of like "Books are always better than the movies" so I got the book and read it. Then I listened to it. Then I saw the movie. Then I made my aunt read the book with me. Then I put the audio on in the car and made my parents listen to it. And then I read all the other Michael Crichton books I could LOL.

Second place goes to Douglas Adams because I had about given up on reading in Middle School when I found HHGTTG in the basement while working on homework. (I've told that story many times though)

AND THAT IS THE END! HUZZAH! Thanks for playing! And thanks for reading!

Didn't make the time for a photo and post yesterday because it was a holiday and we were keeping busy. Tim got a shiny new phone!

ANYWAY, here's the photo request, submitted by dance_the_dance



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It’s still a selfie if you can’t see my whole face, right? Twas my day off and I used the time to recharge mentally after yesterday’s full on drain. Played lots of video games and just chilled. Wanted to show off my P!atd shirt too! That’s my desk behind me, Leia says hi.

I picked up Horizon: Zero Dawn which, according to my most recent save file, I had not played since September of 2018. Oops. To be fair, the game made me mad. It is open world and I wandered into a zone and triggered a quest I was not prepared for yet. And I hadn't saved in awhile or something and I didn't want to go back at the time because I knew how much progress I had made. But after almost a year collecting dust on my shelf, I had forgotten pretty much everything, so rolling it back to a save that was the day before that last one wasn't as cringe inducing. And OMG I realized I had a bunch of really early quests I hadn't bothered to do that had equipment rewards/training and yeah...oops!

I was bad today and bought some stuff from Torrid...I mean, it was 40% off + another 5% because they own my soul I have their credit card so I got a deal! I bought Star Wars shorts. I couldn't resist!!! I've got Star Wars on the brain with every damn nerd site I follow going to Galaxy's Edge last week. And now OutsideXbox is back there AGAIN today because they are in California for E3 and the whole gang is there and they were Instagramming it all afternoon. JUST TORTURE! I'm thinking maybe we can go in 2021. By then, all the rides should be open and running. And they should have the whole line system worked out. Apparently you make an appointment for when you get to go into Galaxy's Edge so only a certain number of people are in there at a given time. And you have color coded wrist bands so that the park people can easily tell how much time you have left and let you know if you can or cannot do something.

Oh, and my Dad officially retired today! 25 years as a federal employee (and he had retired from the Navy before that so he has served his country well, yeah?) Anyway, my Mom said my Dad was home by 10:45 am and she emailed me around noon saying he had called her 3 times already. LOL. It's a good thing she is retiring too, though not for a few more weeks.

Anywayz, need to get to bed. Workin' tomorrow. Hoping it is chill, the weather is kind of blah - hot and cloudy, storms are lurking. TTFN